Giving alms no charity, and employing the poor a grievance to the nation
being an essay upon this great question, whether work-houses, corporations, and houses of correction for employing the poor, as now practis'd in England; or parish-stocks, as propos'd in a late pamphlet, entituled, A bill for the better relief, imployment and settlement of the poor, &c. are not mischievous to the nation, tending to the destruction of our trade, and to encrease the number and misery of the poor.
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